Gold (color)

The web colorgold (shown at right) is sometimes referred to as golden in order to distinguish it from the color metallic gold. The use of gold as a color term in traditional usage is more often applied to the color "gold (metallic)" (shown below). The first recorded use of golden as a color name in English was in the year 1300 to refer to the element gold and in 1423 to refer to blonde hair.[1]